Allen Gilliland wrote:
I was always just talking about using vanity urls for incoming requests, not for url rewriting of outputed html. I don't have any real desire for rewriting urls on their way out.
IMO, the new, improved, vanity, etc. URLs should be the native URLs for the various pages/resources on the system, so no rewriting would be required. Having the native URLs of the system be simple and consistent (i.e. not different after a redirect or following a link) is important for search engine ranking, bookmarking, feed urls, etc.
It would be preferable not to rewrite the URLs on the way out. Ideally, they would be the vanity/improved URLs from the start.
Additionally the URL arrangement should be as configurable as possible with the default being backwards-compatible with the current solution. There should also be support for existing blogs that want to migrate to a new scheme (redirects and/or forwards.)
-- Sean
